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High-Speed Cameras Improve Vehicle Performance and Safety
Jul 1, 1998 — Ballistics and mining engineers have long used high-speed imaging to study how small changes affect the way explosives detonate. Industrial engineers use the cameras to slow down high-speed machines so they can study manufacturing problems. Automotive test engineers examine body panels during a crash, brake rotors under stress, windshield wipers in the rain, and turbulence in engine cylinders. The common thread that runs through these applications is that they all involve solving problems that...
Laser Alignment Improves Appearance, Safety, Efficiency
Jul 1, 1998 — Long operating life, fuel efficiency, passenger safety and customer satisfaction - all important considerations in the transportation industry - rely heavily on precision alignment of body parts and operating components. In recent years, lasers and...
NIST Reports Billions Spent on Measurement Capability
Jul 1, 1998 — The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has reported that the US semiconductor industry spent between $2.3 billion and $2.5 billion in 1996 to buy measurement tools and instruments to support chip manufacturing. NIST predicts...
Photonics Shares in Environmental Advances
Jul 1, 1998 — Applications of photonics technology in research and development over the past decade have helped to create many technologies that will improve water safety, reduce wasted paper and make manufacturing and agriculture more environmentally friendly in...
Plastic Fiber Technique Improves Cost
Jul 1, 1998 — A Florida company has developed and patented a method for the continuous production of graded-index plastic optical fiber. James K. Walker, CEO of Nanoptics Inc. in Gainesville, Fla., presented an overview of the method at the Plastic Optical Fiber...
Reliable, Compact Ultrafast Lasers Escape the Lab
Jul 1, 1998 — While several thousand femtosecond lasers can be found in research and development laboratories around the world, and hundreds of potential applications have been proposed, no ultrafast sources were used regularly in the industrial or medical world...
Report: US Should Do More to Support Optics
Jul 1, 1998 — The National Research Council's Committee on Optical Science and Engineering has published a report, Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, pointing to optics as the leader of the next technology revolution. The...
Software Integration Enables Fast, Precise Telescope Design
Jul 1, 1998 — Astrophysicists have studied gamma ray bursts for more than 25 years, but they are no closer to understanding them or determining their sources. These unpredictable bursts of gamma-ray photons come from all directions and are among the greatest...
TRW's UV Laser to Advance Photolithography
Jul 1, 1998 — TRW's Space and Technology Div. in Redondo Beach, Calif., has taken another step closer in the development of a light source for lithography for the semiconductor industry. TRW selected SDL Inc. in San Jose, Calif., as the initial supplier of...
3-D Imager Has a Hand in Making Golf Gloves Fit
Jun 1, 1998 — Golfers may soon be able to send their hand measurements electronically to a glove manufacturing facility and receive custom-made gloves in just a few weeks. Photonics once again is the backbone of this capability. 4DI technology has also been...
Absorption Spectroscopy Technique Provides Extremely High Sensitivity
Jun 1, 1998 — Several important areas of modern technology require fast, accurate and convenient measurement of trace species concentrations in gaseous environments. Examples include reactive plasma processing, pollutant monitoring and semiconductor...
Diode Pumps New Self-Frequency-Doubled Laser
Jun 1, 1998 — In an intensive three-week push, researchers from the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando cranked up the power of their diode-pumped, self-frequency- doubled Nd:YCOB laser. Using a...
Germany Funds High-Power Diode Laser Project
Jun 1, 1998 — The Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology has announced that it will fund a DM 70 million (about $40 million) collaborative R&D project to develop high-power diode lasers. The project is one of five winners in a...
Industrial Laser Shipments Climbed in '97
Jun 1, 1998 — Cutting applications spurred an increase in shipments of industrial laser systems and equipment for North America and the US. Overall, shipments increased 16 percent in 1997 over 1996, according to a report from The Association for Manufacturing...
Interferometer Detects Microscopic Flaws on Optical Surfaces
Jun 1, 1998 — A team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., has developed an absolute interferometer that can detect imperfections less than 1-nm deep in highly polished surfaces, such as lenses or mirrors. The device could...
Line-Scan Camera 'Peels' Spark Plugs
Jun 1, 1998 — In mass production, keeping defective products to a minimum and cutting waste are primary concerns. A major manufacturer of auto parts and electronics set a goal to ship products with zero defects and to reduce scrap by better controlling its...
Machine Vision Spots Spoiled Wheat
Jun 1, 1998 — In the past two years, wheat farmers in the US have faced a serious problem: Fungal spores, known as karnal bunt, have been infecting their crops. To prevent the spread of this blight, farmers and scientists have turned to photonics to speed up...
Names In The News
Jun 1, 1998 — The US Defense Department presented its highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, to Robert Q. Fugate, senior scientist for atmospheric compensation at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at...
New Machine Speeds Manufacture of Aspheres
Jun 1, 1998 — Engineers from the University of Rochester in New York, along with scientists at the US Department of Defense and seven corporate partners, have designed a system that automates the manufacture of specially shaped lenses known as aspheres. Aspheres...
Optical Morphology:
Jun 1, 1998 — For many people, optics are but one of the many components that make up a system. They understand the specifications the optics must meet but, many times, they do not know nor are they concerned about the broader performance characteristics of the...
Pentagon Urges Cooperation on Weapons Planning with Allies in Europe, Japan
Jun 1, 1998 — In an effort to coordinate a better defense among allied nations, the Pentagon has called for increased cooperation with Japan and Europe in the production of new weapons, including remote sensors. US Undersecretary of Defense Jacques Gansler said...
Russia Spins off Labs into Private Companies
Jun 1, 1998 — As economic straits force the Russian government to shed some of its Soviet-era overhead, research groups within many of the state-controlled institutions are becoming private companies. Officials are debating putting entire laboratories on the...
Terrestrial IR Imaging Benefits from Aerospace Programs
Jun 1, 1998 — Infrared imaging systems are exploding into virtually every corner of the industrial workplace. Improved resolution, thermal sensitivity, ruggedness and portability of imager components have expanded the use of imaging systems, and a good many of...
Acquisition Combines Rivals in Scientific Imaging
May 1, 1998 — Photometrics Ltd. and Princeton Instruments Inc., rivals in the scientific imaging market, have joined hands as sister companies in Roper Industries Inc. Roper, which is based in Bogart, Ga., acquired Photometrics last month. The acquisition expands...
Arsenic Sulfide Eyed for Thermal Imaging
May 1, 1998 — An ideal lens for a thermal imaging system would be both lightweight and inexpensive, while immune to incident wavelengths and temperatures. A team of British scientists from the Defence Research Agency in Worcestershire, Pilkington Optronics in...
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